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TIL when the band Judas Priest appeared on The Simpsons, they were mistakenly defined as “death metal”. The producers decided to apologize for the mistake by having Bart Simpson write “Judas Priest is not ‘Death Metal’” in the opening sequence chalkboard gag.

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4XNKo TIL that 37% of Brits believe their jobs are meaningless.
16wJd TIL about the Burgess Shale, a UNESCO world heritage site, and a very important fossil bed for understanding the history of life on earth. First discovered in 1909 by Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian. They are located near Mt. Burgess in the Canadian Rockies.
9YpJG TIL that after gay Vietnam War veteran Leonard Matlovich died, his epitaph said this: ''When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men, and a discharge for loving one.''
0d80M TIL A hang-gliding world record was set in 1989 by Kevin Christopherson, who rode an updraft 287 miles (462 km) from Bairoil, Wyoming to North Dakota
kOME4 TIL prior to the work of Harvey Nininger (1887-1986) experts thought searching for meteorites was a waste of time. Starting in 1923, he was credited with half of all meteorite discoveries on earth by 1941.